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Bottle a beer a couple of days ago. Looked at the bottles and it seems most of them have some sort of solid/gellish material floating on top of the beer. Never seen anything like it. Possibly a result of contamination? What do y'all think? I do not think it is left hops of just stuff that is...

I have an IPA in a secondary its been in there for maybe 1 month. It was in the primary for a month also. I'm really busy can I leave it in the secondary for another month and be ok?

So I am moving houses. I have an IPA in a secondary. I am going to have to move it 10 miles in my car, Its going to get a pretty good shaking.. Any advice.. the move has to happen.. How long will it take for it all to settle back down..is this bad for my beer.

14649 +5(Belgian Pale Ale) +5 (London Black Ale) +5(Belgian wit bear +5(American Ipa) -------------------- =14666 Why did I get the unlucky number

thanks for the responses my bottles ended up sitting out for like 1 hour before I bottled.

I like to brown paper bag Idea. I just bottled can I keep the beers in a room that has artificial light or should I move it to a dark room.

I boiled the sugar for about 4-5 minutes then cooled the water/sugar solution down to about 75 Degrees F and poured it on top of the beer. Then stirred, bottled

So I poured the priming sugar in after I poured the beer in the bottling bucket. I mixed it as well as I could with the fear oxygen in my mind. So I stirred it well, but not to crazy. Will I have bottle bombs and flat beers?

How long can I leave my sanitized bottles out before filling with beer. Would they get nasty if I left them out for like 4 hours.

Interesting, I did an Ipa mini mash not to long ago its instructions said nothing about dry-hopping. Whats up with that? The procedure just called for 3oz of hops during the boil. Also should I take a sample out of the secondary and use that to check the sg. And if so can i dump that sample...

Well I know most say skip the secondary all together, I would but at this moment I have a belgian pale ale that has been in the primary for 2 weeks and the secondary for 1 week. Im thinking about letting it sit in the secondary one more week and then bottle. What do yall think? Also I have an...

I just figured out that light could hurt my beer. I have been using an LED flashlight to look into my beer a couple times a day to check clarity. Obviously I should avoid this practice will this skunk my beer?

Cool thanks everyone! Thanks to for that link especially!

Exact AA% is not known. It is listed as medium on Austin home brew site where i got the kit. 6 pounds of lme. I guess i will just see out it works out and just brew another one tomorrow in case it doesn't taste good. Thanks for all your help

two 1/2 gallons of water was used to seep the grains and so on. it was lme extract